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Sharing Your Impact

June 3, 2025

Our Service Stars program highlights kids who are making a positive impact on their communities. We love hearing about how you're striving to make the world a brighter place. Are you or someone you know making a positive difference? Tell…

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Stars in Action

May 15, 2025

This school year, the Service Stars community made a big impact. Stars, thank you for sharing your stories. What will you do next? Ella Lin, 16, California From Ella Lin’s mom: Ella Lin has involved more than 100 kids…

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Pals with Paws

May 15, 2025

Hayden Roland has a lot of pets. He has two dogs, Sasha and Peanut; two rabbits, BunBun and Velvet; and a pair of potbellied pigs, Ava and Layla. BunBun came to Hayden’s family as a foster pet. He’d been hurt…

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Mission: Protect Animals

May 14, 2025

Join a community of kids who are making the world a better and brighter place. TFK Service Stars know that even the smallest actions can make a big impact. Mission of the Month From endangered species in the wild to…

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Book Support

April 3, 2025

On a sunny Saturday in late February, Rohan Mukhopadhyay unpacked 10 boxes of children’s books. He was at the Beehive, a venue in Los Angeles, California, with his family. They arranged the books on folding tables. The books had been…

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Oyster Duty

March 6, 2025

Some see oysters as a yummy treat. Others value them as a source of pearls. But to Demi Johnson, of Gulfport, Mississippi, oysters are environmental superstars. “They’re really important,” the 15-year-old told TIME for Kids. A single oyster can filter…

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Safer Streets

February 5, 2025

Patricia Miller was taking a walk one morning on a busy street near her home, in Goodyear, Arizona. A car nearly jumped the curb. She was unharmed. But the car came “very, very close,” Miller told TIME for Kids. …

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From Our Readers

January 9, 2025

In December 2024, classes around the country took part in our Service Stars bingo challenge. From spreading smiles to lending a helping hand, kids promoted kindness and made a positive difference. Now it’s your turn to shine: How are you…

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Class Act

January 9, 2025

Can you guess the price of toothpaste? How about a 12-pack of soap? A big jug of laundry detergent? These are some of the brainteasers that sixth graders at A.I. Root Middle School, in Medina, Ohio, considered recently. “It was…

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Positively Kind

December 4, 2024

Lena Ford was 7 when she started Arting for You. She collected art supplies. Then she donated them to kids in foster care and homeless shelters in and around her hometown of Marietta, Georgia. “My granny always wanted to give…

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